Michael Dorosh Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 1987- Taken On Strength, The Calgary Highlanders Regimental Pipes and Drums, rank Private 1988-Basic Military Training/General Military Training, Southern Alberta Militia District Battle School - rank, Private 1988 - BANDCON '88, Wainwright Alberta - rank, Private 1988 - Qualified Level 1 and Level 2 Piper 1989 - Promoted Corporal 1989 - NOVA SCOTIA INTERNATIONAL TATTOO - rank, Corporal 1990 - SCOTTISH DIVISION BEATING RETREAT, Horse Guards Parade, London, England & PRESENTATION OF QUEEN'S COLOUR BY H.M. QUEEN ELIZABETH II, McMahon Stadium, Calgary - rank, Corporal 1991 - QL4A Band Administration Course, CANADIAN FORCES SCHOOL OF MUSIC, Borden, Ontario 1995 - Transferred to Administration Company, The Calgary Highlanders and remustered to Finance Clerk, rank, Corporal 1996 - Completed Force Mobile Command Driver Wheeled Course - rank, Corporal 1997 - Finance Clerk trade abolished, remustered as RMS Clerk 1999 - awarded CANADIAN FORCES DECORATION for 12 years service and good conduct (ie "12 years undetected crime") 2000 - Completed Level 1 Resource Management Support Clerk, CANADIAN FORCES SCHOOL OF LOGISTICS AND ADMINISTRATION, Borden, Ontario - rank, Corporal 2001 - Transferred to "A" Company, The Calgary Highlanders, Company Clerk, - rank, Corporal 2002 - Awarded membership in THE CLAN OF THE GALLANT CANADIANS, in the rank of Henchman 2003 - Transferred to "B" Company, The Calgary Highlanders, - rank, Corporal Still only qualified technically as a private but I wear two hooks and get paid at the highest Incentive Pay Category in that rank. There's No Life Like It. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wisbech_lad Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 1983. Two days in school CCF (combined cadet force) until I found out I didn't like being shouted at. Switched to the chess club (seriously!) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrene Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 It's that time of the year again huh? Lance Corporal, United States Marine Corps 1989-1993 Boot Camp: San Diego, Platoon 2073, Hotel Co. 2nd Battalion. Basic Helicopter Course, NAS Millington TN Naval Aircrewman Candidate School (Water & Land Survival) Class 9022, NAS Pensacola. CH53A/D School, TME-32, MCAS Tustin, CA 6113 CH53A/D Flight Line Mechanic OJT with HMT-302 Operation Desert Shield & Desert Storm with HMH-462: Al Jubayl, Tanajib, Lonesome Dove & Kuwait City International (Nov 90 - Mar 91) Operation Restore Hope, Somalia with HMH-363: Mogadishu & Bale Dogle (Dec 92 - Apr 93) 3 or 4 WTI's in Yuma, a couple touch and go's at 29 Stumps & a frozen week at Bridgeport. I was a mechanic / door gunner / janitor / fire watch stander / working party fodder / mess duty "volunteer" & part time unofficial humvee, 5 ton & equipment "borrower" Gyrene 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 July 1995: Joined Illinois Army Guard A/1-131 Inf June 1996: OSUT Infantry 11B, Fort Benning. B/1-19 Inf. July 1997: OPFOR Augmentee, NTC (TF Ripper IIRC - actually a lot of fun) July 1998: OPFOR Augmentee, CMTC Germany (drank more than fought) June 1998: Attached to 1-106 Avn for BLUFOR JRTC rotation (with Hawaiian & Samoan 29th Infantry Brigade - lots of fun!) January - October 2000: Volunteered for duty in ARCENT-Kuwait supporting Op Desert Spring. Took off from Kuwait one hour before the USS Cole was hit. The time I spent over there was easily the best time of my life, believe it or not. July 2001: Retired. :cool: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salkin Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 10 months of basic training and missile firing training in Sweden. We have national conscription service. My weapon was a thing called BILL. A portable missile weapon used in ambushes against tanks and other hard targets. //Salkin aka Niklas Johanson 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Russian Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 US Army 1974-1978. Combat Engineer assigned to 23rd Engineer Battalion of the 3rd Armored Division in Germany. Left Germany in Dec 77. Sent to Fort Sill to make concrete pads for Gun Bunnies. Let Fort Sill to live a warm life in Texas. Was an M60 gunner, M113 driver, demolition specialist, Colonel's driver, Bn Mail Clerk and Squad Leader. In that order. Panther Commander 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omi Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 I was in the Fusiliers Mont-Royal, a reservist regiment in Montréal, for about 3 years (1998 to 2001). Warfare training, helicopter rides and learning how to use weapons was fun, but military life isn't for me. Here's some pictures: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrold Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 US Navy 1982-1988 Nuclear Qualified Machinist's Mate Engineering Laboratory Technician Went to MM school in Great Lakes, IL; Nuclear Power School, Orlando Florida; Nuclear Power Training Unit, Balston Spa, NY. Lots of seatime on USS Nimitz (CVN-68) with a couple Med cruises, a North Atlantic cruise, including a home port change from Norfolk to Bremerton, WA and plenty of sea trials. Haven't been on anything larger than a pontoon boat since. BDH 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorak Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Joined US Army in 1987 after screwing up 2 semesters in engineering college. Basic Training at Ft. Dix, NJ .Where I learned to blend in. Stationed at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma where I was a 13B (cannon crewman on 105 and 155's) Sent to Desert Storm where we became really good at shoot&scoot After desert Storm I took EOD training. (long story, and basically falls to me being an idiot and looking for extra hazard duty pay). Then I proceeded to Ft. Benning and compleated jump school. And Was stationed at Ft. Bragg for a short while before leaving the Army. I was called back up after 9/11. Went to Afganistan where I was with the 82nd Airborne once again, until I broke my ankle and messed up my knee coming out of a helo. Guess thats about it. Lorak 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oren_m Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Hi!!! I want to post a picture of me in uniform too! How do i do that? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenSplatton Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Need to get some Blue in to this thread! Commisioned a 2Lt in May 85. Went to Nav school and then to my first operational unit flying KC-135s. Selected for Pilot training in 1989. KC-10 Pilot ever since with staff tours interspersed. I have a bi tover 4000 hours in the KC-10, about 700 of which is combat time flown since 9/11. Now stationed in San Antonio where I'm busy flying a desk and not deploying. About 20 months from retirement. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-bomb Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 blood sucker from the sea NUFF SAID!!!!!!!!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFC Tom Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 US Navy 67-74 Vietnam Vet on destroyers, nuclear fast attack subs in Atlantic. 2003 Retired Navy Reserve 24 years, CTM-1. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaSCa Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 I was on a nuclear submarine. I boiled water with hot rocks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Originally posted by oren_m: Hi!!! I want to post a picture of me in uniform too! How do i do that? You need to find a web server to host it, then use the UBB tags that are explained just below the posting box - "What is UBB CodeTM?" is just below the little grey boxes saying URL, EMAIL, etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GJK Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 USMC, 1982-1986, E-4 Corporal MOS: 0231 Intelligence Specialist Boot: MCRD San Diego, Plt 3095 Intel school: Little Creek, VA 1st Duty Assgmt: Camp Courtney - Okinawa, Japan 2nd Duty Assgmt: 29 Palms, CA No military action at all, so I left the Corps and became a cop in L.A. for 4 years. Moved back to Texas and now I sit on my butt all day making web pages. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gadzilla Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 USMC 1988-1993 I went to boot on the Island then to TN for A school, spent my 5 years as an CH-46 Chrewcheif and Machanic. My squadron HMM-164, as part of the 15th MEU, did the initial invasion for "Operation Restore Hope". After the Marines I went to Penn State got a degree in Aerospace engineering and now I'm back working with the Marines (as a civilian engineer) on a rotorcraft flight test program. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aardvark Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 RAF section of my school's Combined Cadet Force! But unlike Wisbech_lad's experience above there was no opt-out clause. I joined the RAF section because we got to go inside "to learn aeronatics" when it rained. The squaddies had to keep square-bashing, while the Navy section wore bell-bottom trousers that didn't look good in any kind of weather. Closest I came to action was the stampede for the chow line at weekend camps, and I hope I'm properly grateful for never being called to do more. I remember getting a half day off school to watch the fleet leaving for the Falklands. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roborat Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 1979 joined Canadain Military as Officer Cadet, destined to join the Navy, soon came to my senses and quit after finishing basic officer training and get a degree in Civil Engineering. 1997 Other people having their mid life crisis buy a sports car or have an affair, I, however, Join the Army Reserve. More specifically, the Artillery, 20 Fld in Edmonton, Alberta as a Private. I discover that for some reason they won't accept my basic training from 18 years ago as valid, and I have to go through it all again. Now currently a Bombadier (Corporal), qualified as 2IC on a gun, and Recce and Command Post technician. And am probably the only person in the army only qualified to drive an Iltis, and nothing else; which is really useful when our main vehicle is a gun tractor. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 Originally posted by Roborat: And am probably the only person in the army only qualified to drive an Iltis, and nothing else; which is really useful when our main vehicle is a gun tractor. Watch - your unit will be the first ones to get the Iltis replaced with the Milverado because of that, and you'll be back to walking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrene Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 Originally posted by Gadzilla: USMC 1988-1993 I went to boot on the Island then to TN for A school, spent my 5 years as an CH-46 Chrewcheif and Machanic. My squadron HMM-164, as part of the 15th MEU, did the initial invasion for "Operation Restore Hope". After the Marines I went to Penn State got a degree in Aerospace engineering and now I'm back working with the Marines (as a civilian engineer) on a rotorcraft flight test program. Were you on a float when you went to Somalia? We C5'd in. We were both in Tustin at around the same time! I was in flightline in the Screw & 363 a couple of line shacks down from yours and across the way from you guys in Hangar 1. (Unless I'm mistaken and you were out of Hangar 2) Gyrene 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellfish Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 Originally posted by Roborat: 1979 joined Canadain Military as Officer Cadet, destined to join the Navy, soon came to my senses and quit after finishing basic officer training and get a degree in Civil Engineering. 1997 Other people having their mid life crisis buy a sports car or have an affair, I, however, Join the Army Reserve. More specifically, the Artillery, 20 Fld in Edmonton, Alberta as a Private. I discover that for some reason they won't accept my basic training from 18 years ago as valid, and I have to go through it all again. Now currently a Bombadier (Corporal), qualified as 2IC on a gun, and Recce and Command Post technician. And am probably the only person in the army only qualified to drive an Iltis, and nothing else; which is really useful when our main vehicle is a gun tractor. Wow. What's the maximum age you can be to join the Canadian Army? And I know that women are allowed in combat arms, how often do they actually make it into a squad? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omi Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 Wow. What's the maximum age you can be to join the Canadian Army? And I know that women are allowed in combat arms, how often do they actually make it into a squad? I think there's no age limit in the reserve, as long as you can do your basic training and pass your qualifications for the job. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiram Sedai Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 1987 - 1997, U.S. Army - Ft. Dix, NJ for Basic - Ft. Monmouth, NJ for AIT (71M10 - Chaplain Asst.) HHB DivArty, 25th Inf Div (Light) Schofield Barracks, HI HHD 324th FSB, 24th Inf Div (Mech) Ft. Benning, GA HHC 2-327th Inf, 101st Airborne (Air Assault) Ft. Campbell, KY Edit - Almost kicked out of AIT for lack of typing skills. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogface Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 Ok once again. 1985 - 1989 U.S. Army Basic: Ft. Leonard Wood Mo. B-1-3 4th Plt. AIT: Ft. Sam Huston Tx. 91A HHC 2-327th Inf, 101st Airborne (AASLT), Medical Plt. Aidman Sec. Ft. Campbell, KY @Hiram No Slack! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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